Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds (/ˈkɪərən/ KEER-ən; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018) and Belfast (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, Hinds is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King, in the animated films Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019). He played General Zakharow in Red Sparrow (2018). He also portrayed Steppenwolf in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2017) and its 2021 director's cut. His television roles include Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, and Captain Sir John Franklin in The Terror. In addition, Hinds appeared in season 3 of Shetland (2016), produced by ITV. As a stage actor, Hinds has spent periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Hinds has continued to work on stage throughout his career. In 2020, he was ranked 31st on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciarán Hinds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Midwinter Break as Gerry
- 2025 · Is This Thing On? as Jan
- 2025 · Words of War as Dmitry Muratov
- 2025 · The Narrow Road to the Deep North as Dorrigo Evans 1980s
- 2023 · The Family Plan as McCaffrey
- 2023 · In the Land of Saints and Sinners as Vincent O'Shea
- 2022 · Treason as Sir Martin Angelis
- 2022 · The English as Richard M Watts
- 2022 · The Wonder as Father Thaddeus
- 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Dark Wizard
- 2022 · The Dry as Tom Sheridan
- 2021 · Belfast as Pop
- 2021 · Kin as Eamon Cunningham
- 2021 · Zack Snyder's Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
- 2019 · Frozen II as Pabbie (voice)
- 2018 · First Man as Robert R. Gilruth
- 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead as James McLaughlin
- 2018 · The Terror as Sir John Franklin
- 2018 · Red Sparrow as Alexei Zyuganov
- 2017 · Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
- 2017 · Axis as Jim (voice)
- 2016 · Silence as Father Valignano
- 2015 · Hitman: Agent 47 as Litvenko
- 2014 · Delirium as
- 2014 · McCanick as Quinn
- 2013 · Frozen as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
- 2013 · Closed Circuit as Devlin
- 2013 · Shetland as Michael Maguire
- 2012 · Political Animals as Bud Hammond
- 2012 · The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Self
- 2012 · John Carter as Tardos Mors
- 2012 · The Woman in Black as Mr. Daily
- 2011 · Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Roarke
- 2011 · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Roy Bland
- 2011 · Salvation Boulevard as Jim Hunt
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Mance Rayder
- 2011 · The Rite as Father Xavier
- 2009 · Race to Witch Mountain as Burke
- 2009 · Above Suspicion as DCS James Langton
- 2008 · The Tale of Despereaux as Botticelli (voice)
- 2008 · Ca$h as Barnes
- 2008 · Stop-Loss as Roy King
- 2008 · In Bruges as Priest (uncredited)
- 2007 · There Will Be Blood as Fletcher Hamilton
- 2007 · Hallam Foe as Julius Foe
- 2006 · The Nativity Story as Herod
- 2006 · Miami Vice as FBI Agent John Fujima
- 2005 · Munich as Carl
- 2005 · Rome as Julius Caesar
- 2004 · The Phantom of the Opera as Firmin
- 2003 · Calendar Girls as Rod Harper
- 2003 · Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life as Jonathan Reiss
- 2002 · Road to Perdition as Finn McGovern
- 2002 · The Sum of All Fears as President Nemerov
- 2000 · The Sleeper as Fergus Moon
- 2000 · Jason and the Argonauts as King Aeson
- 1997 · Ivanhoe as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- 1996 · Testament: The Bible in Animation as Lucifer (voice)
- 1996 · Cold Lazarus as Fyodor
- 1995 · Persuasion as Captain Frederick Wentworth
- 1992 · Between the Lines as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Clive Hickey
- 1991 · Prime Suspect as Edward Parker-Jones
- 1990 · Yellowbacks as Martin Pitt
- 1990 · Perfect Scoundrels as Jack Vosper
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Jack Lynch
- 1988 · The Play on One as Martin Pitt
- 1984 · Sherlock Holmes as Jim Browner
- 1981 · Excalibur as Lot
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · East of Eden as Samuel Hamilton
- 2024 · Ireland's Coast as Narrator
- 2020 · The Man in the Hat as The Man In The Hat
- 2018 · Captain Morten and the Spider Queen as Captain Stinger (voice)
- 2018 · Elizabeth Harvest as Henry
- 2016 · My Mother and Other Strangers as Older Francis
- 2016 · Bleed for This as Angelo Pazienza
- 2016 · Last Days in the Desert as Father
- 2015 · The Driftless Area as Ned
- 2015 · Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Mance Rayder
- 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Spencer Ludlow
- 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Spencer Ludlow
- 2010 · The Debt as David Peretz
- 2010 · Life During Wartime as Bill Maplewood
- 2008 · Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as Joe Blomfield
- 2007 · Margot at the Wedding as Dick Koosman
- 2006 · Amazing Grace as Lord Tarleton
- 2005 · Mickybo and Me as Jonjo's Da
- 2003 · The Statement as Pochon
- 2003 · The Mayor of Casterbridge as Michael Henchard
- 2003 · Veronica Guerin as John Traynor
- 2001 · The Weight of Water as Louis Wagner
- 1997 · Oscar and Lucinda as Reverend Dennis Hasset
- 1997 · Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester
- 1996 · Mary Reilly as Sir Danvers Carew
- 1995 · Circle of Friends as Professor Flynn
- 1990 · December Bride as Frank Echlin
- 1990 · The Mahabharata as Ashwatthaman
- 1989 · The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Cory
- Future · Cry to Heaven as
- Future · Walk the Blue Fields as
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Mr O'Connor
- 2025 · Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland as Narrator
- 2025 · A Bear Remembers as Voice of the Bear
- 2024 · Cottontail as John
- 2023 · Untameable as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Hour as Himself
- 2019 · Lost Lives as Self
- 2018 · Grace and Goliath as Surgeon
- 2018 · National Theatre Collection: Translations as Hugh
- 2016 · The Hope Rooms as Eamonn
- 2015 · National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Claudius
- 2015 · Love is a Sting as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Sea as Max Morden
- 2011 · The Shore as Joe
- 2009 · Glock as Luger
- 2009 · The Eclipse as Michael Farr
- 2006 · The Tiger's Tail as Father Andy
- 2003 · The Mayor of Casterbridge as Michael Henchard
- 2003 · Thursday the 12th as Marius Bannister
- 1999 · The Lost Lover as Adam
- 1999 · A Time to Love as Peter
- 1999 · The Lost Son as Carlos
- 1998 · Titanic Town as Aidan McPhelimy
- 1998 · Getting Hurt as Charlie Cross
- 1997 · The Life of Stuff as David Arbogast
- 1996 · Some Mother's Son as Danny Boyle
- 1995 · The Affair as Edward Leyland
- 1993 · The Man Who Cried as Abel Mason
- 1992 · Hostages as Brian Keenan
- 1990 · Who Bombed Birmingham? as Richard McIlkenny
- 1981 · Our Boys as Brother
- 1980 · The Long March as Michael Canning




